CAMBRIDGE SECONDARY 1

YEAR 8 SCIENCE
CHAPTER 12
Chemistry in everyday life
What is a chemical reactions?
All chemical reactions:
Create new substances the substances you end up
with are different from the ones you started with
Are not reversible at the end of the reaction, you
cannot easily get back the substances you started with
Acid reactions
Acids and alkali
Sam adds sodium hydroxide to hydrochloric acid.
The alkali reacts with the acid.
A neutralisation reaction has happened.

Word equation:
hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide sodium chloride + water
Acid reactions
Acids with metal oxides
Metal oxide + acid metal salt + water
Eg:
copper oxide + sulfuric acid copper sulfate + water

Scientists say that a salt is a compound made when a metal

replaces hydrogen in an acid